| Field Season 2008/2009 |
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DISC Drill with an ice core in the barrel
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Logan Mitchell inside the ice core storage basement.
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Ice core
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Tilting the DISC Drill. After the drill is pulled back to the surface, it is lowered from a vertical to a horizontal orientation.
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Gifford Wong logs an ice core.
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The ice core storage basement, full of brittle ice, underneath the arch facility.
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The DISC Drill barrel with an ice core in it. An arrow is marked on the core to indicate which side of the core was facing north when the core was in the ice sheet.
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1-meter long piece of ice core illuminated with a light.
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Instead of the traditional approach of drilling and handling two meter long segments of brittle ice, we used a new drilling method. (click on image to read more)
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1-meter long sections of ice core from the brittle ice zone.
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An ice core sample with bubbles of ancient air.
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Back at a laboratory in the USA, an ice core sample melts under vacuum to release the ancient air bubbles for isotopic analysis.
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Gifford Wong marks the azimuth of the ice core.
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Anais Orsi adjusting the depth of the borehole thermometer.
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New Year's Eve at WAIS Divide
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The core handling side of the arch facility
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"WSD", the USAP acronym for WAIS Divide
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Science technicians cutting the ice into 1 meter long sections
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The ice core storage basement at WAIS Divide.
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View of an ice core. The green netting helps protect the ice. The ice core is 122 mm in diameter.
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John, one of the cooks at WAIS Divide, prepares a meal. The food at WAIS Divide is incredible!
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Cargo being loaded onto a LC-130
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Side view of the galley at WAIS Divide
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John Robinson and Alex Shturmakov (ICDS) next to the DISC Drill
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WAIS Divide ice cores with netting
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Geoff Hargreaves, Ken Taylor, Anais Orsi, and Bruce Vaughn
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View of the drill
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View of drill arch from camp showing the new power line
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Sylvain Masclin doing atmospheric sampling at WAIS Divide
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Receiving the core in the FED
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Positioning the drill barrel to move it to the core processing window
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Julie Palais helps to push the core out of the drill barrel
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New Year's Eve dinner at WAIS Divide
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New Year's Eve dessert at WAIS Divide
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Moving the drill barrel to the core processing area
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Mini golf at WAIS Divide
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Mini golf at WAIS Divide
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Mini golf at WAIS Divide
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Ken Taylor inspecting an ice core
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Ken Taylor and Anais Orsi looking at layers in backlit snowpit
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Julie Palais, Kendrick Taylor, and Bruce Vaughn at WAIS Divide
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Dr. Julie Palais (NSF Antarctic Glaciology Program Manager) in the backlit snowpit
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Jay Johnson (Lead Driller) with the drill in its nearly horizontal position
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Inside the drill control room
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Ice going into the FED
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Ice cores in netting
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Gifford Wong examining a core at WAIS Divide
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Drill control screen
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Drill control screen
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DEP data from WAIS Divide
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Ice core coming out of the drill barrel and into the FED
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Computer touch screen in core processing area
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Bruce Vaughn eating a good looking meal at WAIS Divide
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Bringing the drill up
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Bess Koffman - one of the core handlers
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Bess Koffman and Gifford Wong processing core at WAIS Divide
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Anais Orsi in tent where she is collecting a borehole temperature log
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The galley at WAIS Divide
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Arch at the start of the 2008/2009 field season
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2008/2009 core handling crew
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This site is administered by the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Science Coordination Office (Desert Research Institute and University of New Hampshire). This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under award OPP-0440817 to the Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.